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Will “work from hotel” catch on?

Your columnist investigates the latest in WFH

As summer descends with a vengeance on the northern hemisphere, you may be fantasising about the promise of “working from anywhere”. A colleague’s PowerPoint presentation would go down better by the poolside, washed down with a mojito. For most office grunts such fantasies remain just that—“anywhere” boils down to the discomfort of the sweaty kitchen table, a noisy café or the office hot desk.

This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “The latest in WFH”

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